Bret Harte Elementary

Bret Harte Elementary is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Corcoran, California, operated by Corcoran Joint Unified, with 546 students on its rolls from grades K through 1.

Corcoran Joint Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,175 students. Bret Harte Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bret Harte Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). The remainder comes out to 6% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Bret Harte Elementary logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Bret Harte Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, Kings County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,995, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Bret Harte Elementary is one of 67 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students).

Corcoran High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bret Harte Elementary.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Bret Harte Elementary's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 593 (now 546). Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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